***NOTE: As with all Tips and Tricks we provide on the IDMWorks blog, use the following AT YOUR OWN RISK.  We do not guarantee this will work in your environment and make no warranties***

Oracle’s OID docs are pretty vague around indexing.  In reality, there are really two options:

1. When creating an attribute, check the “Indexed” box
2. Create the index in the future (after you figure out OID needs it for something!)

In order to do #2, you should follow this procedure:

1. Navigate to the $MW_HOME/<domain>/ldap/bin/catalog connect=”OIDDB” add=”true” attribute=”<the attribute name that you want to index>” debug=”true” verbose=”true”

If you try to check the box (as in #1) after you have used the attribute, the ODSM interface will check the box, and make you think the attribute has been indexed (but it really hasn’t!)

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